Some of these technologies may sound futuristic and far afield, like something featured in the ‘Jettsons’, but the reality is that the future is here. We not only have tools to cut emissions and seek a zero carbon future, we have and are developing tools that can capture particulate matter pollution.

One thing is pretty clear, the kids are right. If we fail to address climate change today, we will force future generations to a life unimaginable. It's anybody's guess how these lawsuits will unfold, but it's clear these kids are on the right side of history.

These stakeholders are all putting their money where their mouths are. Fossil fuels are on the way out, here's to hoping that within the next generation, they are as obsolete as the dinosaurs that created them.

We can capitalize on the co-benefits of micro-grids to both combat climate change and reach our global SDGs. Micro-grids provide so much more than illumination. Every new micro-grid increases GDP, powers cell-phone towers, provides communities with the means to store vaccines and provide lifesaving health services, illuminates streets at night to increase safety for women and girls, and prevents respiratory illnesses caused by biomass cook-stoves.

Let's be real, plastic was never really fantastic. It's largely made from petrochemicals, basically leftovers in oil production. It does have advantages for medicine and infrastructure; but how we dispose of it and what we've done to the planet through plastic pollution is just terrible.